WASHINGTON – Pandas are, to many, a gateway animal. People are drawn in by the bears’ charm and sweetness and before they ...

Researchers said on Thursday they discovered near the city of Zhaotong in northern Yunnan Province fossils about 6 million years old of an extinct panda called Ailurarctos that bore the oldest ...

helping move the panda from “endangered” to “vulnerable” on the global list of species at risk of extinction. Central China, home to the only natural habitat for giant pandas ...

And today, several much-loved animals are very close to extinction, including species of panda, rhino, orangutan and turtle. Scientists have radical ideas for bringing species back from extinction ...

But it is not enough to save some animals from the threat of extinction: the red panda, thick-billed parrot, and blue poison dart frog are three icons of the world’s endangered color.

Just at the time of her visit, Chinese conservation experts announced the iconic giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) has been taken off the endangered list. Wild panda populations have increased by ...

Bao Li and Qing Bao, both 3 years old, are the latest black-and-white bears to call the nation’s capital home Male giant panda Bao Li plays on a wooden climbing structure. Beginning on January ...

Panda haters often argue that the billions of dollars that are spent to prevent them from going extinct would be better allocated to saving more adaptable species. See for yourself:Watch pandas ...